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happiness
February 2009 
What is happiness?
Posted on Jun 30th, 2008
by 
veronica lynne
veronica lynne
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for June 30, 2008:
Are you serious?
Some of these questions just crack me up.
Happiness is relative. The word "happiness" is a noun meaning roughly: "a state of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy." What makes a person feel contentment or intense joy can most certainly vary from one unique individual to the next.
What is happiness? I suppose you keep these questions very generic in order to solicit a wide range of possible responses. By leaving them open for interpretation you are likely to get just that.
Right now, in this moment, happiness to me is the cool air coming in the window, my good health, this delicious cup of coffee before me, the sounds of the birds in the trees, a comfortable chair to work in and a wonderful iMac to work with.
Right now, in this moment, I find happiness in using my mind to contemplate this question.
Some of these questions just crack me up.
Happiness is relative. The word "happiness" is a noun meaning roughly: "a state of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy." What makes a person feel contentment or intense joy can most certainly vary from one unique individual to the next.
What is happiness? I suppose you keep these questions very generic in order to solicit a wide range of possible responses. By leaving them open for interpretation you are likely to get just that.
Right now, in this moment, happiness to me is the cool air coming in the window, my good health, this delicious cup of coffee before me, the sounds of the birds in the trees, a comfortable chair to work in and a wonderful iMac to work with.
Right now, in this moment, I find happiness in using my mind to contemplate this question.
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hapiness is like taste and I'm glad we have a few choices. However having fifty continual choices is quite the overload. This or that is fine with me.
Ah, but maze, isn't that the very virtue of humanness–choice? You may choose one thing that makes you happy or you may choose many. You may choose to change your mind from moment to moment or you may choose to retain that one thing from past to present to future for your happiness.